Hi Ivo, On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:07:18 +0200, Ivo Manca wrote: > >> We were thinking about using the following: > >> system-manufacturer > >> system-product-name > >> system-version > >> system-serial-number > >> baseboard-manufacturer > >> baseboard-product-name > >> baseboard-version > >> > >> It seems like these 6 fields covers all motherboards. Sending/storing the > >> serial number might also be a privacy issue. > > > Good point. > > > > Do you require an exact match on all 7 parameters or do you cherry-pick > > the minimum that identify a motherboard? > > Oops, system-serial-number didn't need to be in that list, making it 6 > fields instead of 7. I was just copy/pasting ;) > Anyway, we do need all the 6 to match. It might be true that some fields I believe that non-matching version numbers should not be fatal. It sometimes happen that different versions of a board need different configuration files, true, but it's rather rare, so we don't want to store one configuration file per version in general, that would be overkill; we'll only do so when really needed. So I think we should try to match all 6 fields first, if it fails, try without the versions (so only 4 fields), and only if that fails too, declare that no matching configuration file was found. -- Jean Delvare
